Answer:
Sure, you can rent textbooks. There are lots of places online. But so you don't have to search them all, just go to http://www.bigwords.com They are a textbook search engine that searches all the online textbook retailers (including amazon, half, eBay etc) and rental sites (including chegg, bookrenter etc) to find you the best prices. You can even use them at the end of the semester to search for resellers to sell your books to.